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2. Play AudioForest Bathing
    … Ajaan Suwat was once sitting in the sala at Wat Metta*. *He pointed to Mount Palomar, which is across the large valley there, and asked some of the lay people, “Is that mountain heavy?” Now, you know when an ajaan asks a question like that, it’s a trick question. Nobody dared to answer. So he provided the answer himself. He said, “If you … 
3. Play AudioDedicating Goodness, Spreading Goodwill
    … Is your way of life really in line with that intention? That chant we had just now, the Karaniya Metta Sutta: Go back and look at the first several passages. It doesn’t start out immediately with just saying goodwill for everybody. It talks about how you live: You want to be someone who takes criticism easily, someone who’s not so busy with … 
4. All You Need?
    … The argument is then bolstered with reference to a famous discourse, the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta (Sn 1:8). There, the Buddha describes the path by which you can develop goodwill to enjoy a brahma-dwelling now, ending with the comment that when you do, you will never again lie in the womb—a metaphor, we’re told, for complete awakening. If we interpret the … 
5. Poems of the Elders Introduction to the Theragāthā & Therīgāthā
    … 6), the establishings of mindfulness (Thag 1:100), the ten fetters (Thig 6:7), the five hindrances (Thag 2:26), the five aggregates (Thag 1:23), the practice of goodwill, or mettā (Thig 14), and the practice of jhāna, or meditative absorption (Thag 1:41, 1:43, 1:85, 1:119). They also employ the concepts of effluent (āsava) and kamma in their strictly … 
6. On Majjhima Nikāya 61
    … The Sublime Attitudes; “Metta Means Goodwill”; “Head & Heart Together”; “Educating Compassion”; “Freedom from Buddha Nature”; “The Wisdom of the Ego” On kamma: Karma Q&A; The Karma of Mindfulness; The Wings to Awakening; “The Road to Nirvāṇa is Paved with Skillful Intentions”; “The Karma of Now”; Selves & Not-self On virtue: “The Healing Power of the Precepts”; “Getting the Message” On appropriate attention: “Questions … 
7. Antidotes to Anger
   Antidotes to Anger Talk on February 4, 2004 at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center by Thanissaro Bhikkhu You’ve probably heard that the Buddhist antidote to anger is goodwill (mettā, sometimes translated as loving-kindness). You may have tried it and found that there are times when it doesn’t work. No matter how hard you try, it’s difficult to generate goodwill for … 
8. Suttas (Handheld Index) | dhammatalks.org
    … Khp 8Nidhi Kaṇḍa | The Reserve Fund Where is the safest and most productive place to stash your wealth? Khp 9Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta | Goodwill The practice of developing universal goodwill: the practices that form a foundation for the practice, the attitude of universal goodwill itself, and the steps that lead from goodwill to awakening. Dhammapada … .: The Dhammapada :. The Dhammapada, an anthology of verses attributed to … 
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